Given our editor’s love of beer, this news from Carnival was always going to warrant some coverage on Travel Weekly.

We learnt that Carnival Cruise Line’s national sales manager could well end up on the next season of The Block, such is his newfound skill in building fences.

Mark Richards has been hoisted into a newly created role with the cruise line. However, that’s not to suggest any ropes or pulleys were involved.

Carnival’s Jennifer Vandekreeke has hailed herself a water taxi and headed back to shore. We’re going to assume the fare was pretty expensive.

The world’s largest cruise company is gradually getting some meat back on its bones, but it won’t quite have that pre-pandemic girth by the end of the year.

The cruise line is refusing to let travel ban extensions slow it down, announcing plans to grow its fleet by two more ships by 2023.

The cruise giant has laid bare its quarterly financials, and it appears head office will have to wait patiently for a new Nespresso machine.

Unfortunately, even the mere mention of Monopoly is banned in the Travel Weekly office after “the incident”.

Canada’s obnoxiously handsome PM, Justin Trudeau, has chucked a spanner in the works for cruise fanatics over on that side of the globe.

This story is a bit like a pair of mismatched socks, in that it contains both good news and bad news.

Spare a thought for the cruise line’s support team, who are madly racing to get in contact with all affected agents and customers.

Do you only read Travel Weekly for the steel-cutting ceremony stories? Well, you’d better fetch your reading glasses for this one.